Stipa turkestanica is a species of grass that grows in India and Central Asia and western Asia. Its culms are 30âÂÂ70 cm long, and panicles 8âÂÂ14 cm long, bearing few spikelets.
The species was first described by Eduard Hackel in 1906.
The type of S. turkestanica Hack. was collected by Boris A. Fedtschenko on 27 July 1904 in the BadamâÂÂdara Valley near Dshidak, Shugnan District, Tajikistan, during the Iter turkestanicum. The holotype is preserved in the Vienna herbarium (W, specimen W 1916âÂÂ0019184). An isotype fragment from the Vienna material is housed in the U.S. National Herbarium (USâÂÂ3168610). Additional isotypes are deposited at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K000433027) and at the Moscow State University Herbarium (MW0591230, MW0591231).
The following table summarizes the known type specimens of S. turkestanica across major herbaria: